Increased physical activity is not enough to recover astrocytic population from dark-rearing. Synergy with multisensory enrichment is required.

Increased physical activity is not enough to recover astrocytic population from dark-rearing. Synergy with multisensory enrichment is required.

Elimination of sensory inputs (deprivation) modifies the properties of the sensory cortex and serves as a model for studying plasticity during postnatal development. Many studies on the effects of deprivation have been performed in the visual cortex using dark-rearing as a visual deprivation model....

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Main Authors: Harkaitz eBengoetxea, Naiara eOrtuzar, Irantzu eRico-Barrio, Jose Vicente Lafuente, Enrike G Argandoña
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Subjects:
critical period
crossmodal plasticity
environmental enrichment
physical exercise
astrocytes.
dark-rearing
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncel.2013.00170/full

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